3D Printed DIY Night Vision Wins the Internet Today

I’m a huge fan of the DIY laser ablation scene, I have been wanting to put together my own X-Y laser CNC cutter for a long time. Something else that has really come a long way in the last 2-3 years is 3d printing — like a CNC in reverse! Instead of ablating material from something, you are “printing” shapes from a CAD program, which is pretty bad ass if you ask me!

This isn’t particularly about 3D printing, per se, but it is about a 3D printed object — a quite outstanding Instructable by user Mattygyver92 called OpenScope. MattyGyver92 walks us through his process in a particularly awesome Instructable that I had to share.

And cheapest in the class of 3d printers I thought were worth a damn, Alunar’s M505 kit at around $267:

Please, if you decide to check out one of these 3d printers, make sure to do your research. What I find is that they don’t differ with respect to price of media, just like the old adage of paper printer toner being as expensive as the freaking printer itself, some of the print media for the 3d printers is some expensive stuff. Do your research! Caveat emptor!

Ok, this might be the most awesome lego creation I've ever seen, and my best friend is 42 and has every frigging Star Wars...

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